Eat a tasty meal in the house where John Steinbeck was born.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

Giant jewel-toned statues fill the grounds of this Cambodian Buddhist temple in California.

This beloved roadside attraction welcomes visitors with his signature neon smile.

The colossal cartoon man stands outside a Nevada museum.

Local history museum with mammoth bones and an old myth about local giants

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

This stoic, if derpy, giant stands as a monument to Oregon's statehood and the novelty culture of yesteryear.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.